The phrase "as second tier" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is of secondary importance or rank in a particular context.
Example: "The project was categorized as second tier, meaning it would receive less funding than the primary initiatives."
Alternatives: "as a lower priority" or "as secondary level".
Transit preference, while important in residential choice, is more so as second tier after other more important preferences related to lifecycle/demographics are satisfied.
In the past, legal executives often found themselves lumped in with paralegals and other support staff as second tier legal professionals.
But travel hockey is expensive, and with a precarious income, Thomas's parents decided that their son would just play high school hockey, which in Michigan is regarded as second tier and not a viable path to a professional career.
In both of America's political parties, the interesting question concerning the 2008 presidential race is who will emerge as "second tier" candidates, those likely to pick up the pieces should the front-runners (John McCain for the Republicans and Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama for the Democrats) falter.
With a few notable exceptions like Coliseum's P.J. Ladd's Wonderful Horrible Life, skate videos made by shops, as opposed to hardgood companies, are generally thought of as second tier.
By attacking two Republicans viewed as second tier, Democrats are hoping to suppress GOP votes for those candidates while ensuring that Kim gets far enough ahead to be the only Republican in the general election.
The championship at stake was the unclaimed intercontinental middleweight belt of the World Boxing Organization, a title that is about as second-tier as it gets.
Evidently, our results demonstrated a satisfactory diagnostic yield of array CGH for genetic diagnosis in ASD patients, confirming its clinical usefulness as first tier testing.
Second tier VCs want to be in the same rounds as first tier VCs and third tier VCs want to get in on the deals offered to 2nd tier VCs.
Be careful when you refer to some of these guys as second-tier players.
Scientists won't go into careers that are viewed as second-tier fallback alternatives.
